The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-10-29
STATE NEWS.

j. Is. Hubert, at W ashburn, was de-
stroyed by fire. Loss, 50, 500; iusur-
ance, $4,000.
TIE Milwaukee Exposition was O
financial success.
FRANK NovoTNY is wanted at La
Crosse for securing $50 irom a board
ing house where be also failed TO settle
his bills and for neglecting to return
5000 that had been entrusted to him
by a young lady.
HENRY and Fritz Halle, OF Eau
Claire, are said 70 have run away
with $500 belonging to their father.
FRANK VoLLEY has been arrested at
Chippewa Falls for bigamy.
THE Eau Claire police arrested $50
persons during the past year.
The potato market is quite brisk.
In Milwaukee buyers meet the far
mers in the outskirts and purchase
all that are not being delivered on
contract at from l.1O to S1.25 a
bag.
ADoLPH PAGE died at Milwaukee on
the 2lst from wounds received In a
quarrel with his father-in-la ", Tneo-
dore J@ffers, the previous day.
TIE failure OF Charnley & Lovdall
in Chicago has been the cause OF the
appointment Of q receiver for A W.
Lawrence & Co., OF Sturgeon Bay.
The store has been closed and an in
ventory Of stock is now being taken.
the amount OF their liabilities or as.
sets cannot be ascer;ained. The mill
OF the Sturgeon Bay Lumber Com
pany ls still running, but is in charge
of an assignee. It is thought that
Lawrence & Co. will come out all
right.
CERTAIN railway contractors in the
vicinity Of Ashland are charged with
swindling employees by means OF
worthless store orders in lien Of pay.
ALBERT GROSS, g Milwaukee man, is
under arrest at Ashland, charged with
robbing railway workmen.
IT Is said the marriage OF Miss Clara
Foster and Edward Foss, at Fairchild,
which was said to have been intended
as a joke that ended seriously, was not
g. legal marriage, as certain formalities
necessary were not gone through with.
The affair was enlarged upon by SEN
sational correspondents.
CLARK Brown, OF Blue River, Grant
County, was found lying beside the
railroad track with his head and body
terribly bruised. He was unconscious
when found and died in short time
after being tax to his home near by.
1t is supposed that be Jumped from
the train the evening previous while
returning fI ON Boscobel.
JOHN S. OWEN, OF Eau Clsire, has
purch ased from Grand Rapids, Mich,
men and from H. W. EaIlg, of Chip
pewa Falls, their pine lands in Doug
les snd Bayfield, Counties. The con
sideration IN the two deals was $2T5,-
OOO.
GROUND has been broken for water
works At Hay ward.
REUL WESTON, an old and we'll
known citizen of La Crosse, is dead,
at the age OF IS years.
A SNEAK THIEF stole several hundred
dollars worth OF jewelry from the resi-
dence of Mrs. Timothy Brown, Madi-
son.
PHILLIP LACKEY discovered a fine
vein OF lead ore while digging cistern
in Northeast New Diggings, Lafayette
County.
M. NJ. Dorm, a pioneer OF Madison,
Is dead at the age OF SO years. Mr..
Dorm owned alivery stable st Madison
over thirty years.
ASHLAND is gossiping about the re
ported marriage OF Edgar l.. Richter,
son OF the Rev. Louis Richter, pastor
OF ST. Paul Pres byterian Church, to
Marie Gentry, an Indian maiden.
Richter is q telegraph operator em
ployed on the Wisconsin Central Line.
AT a meeting Of the Chippewa Falls
& Ashland Railroad it was decided to
put On party OF surveyors at once
and finish the survey for the new line.
A resolution was passed to the effect
that the line should be extended south
from Chippewa Falls, through Eau
Claire, Trempealeau and Buffalo
Counties to a point opposite Winona.
THE body OF Dr.. f. A. Marden, who
disappeared from his homein Milwau
kee several weeks ago, has been found
in the lake at the head OF Martin
Street. The jury returned q verdict
of accidental death.
JAMES CLARK, q riverman, is under
arrest at La Crosse, charged with set
owned by one Mol keenan,.
THE Miners Co operative Mercantile
Association of Ashland has been ID-
corporated with a capital OF 81 5000.
EAU CLAIRE votes to issue bonds in
the sum OF $25, 600 for bridge pur-
poses.
IDA GIRACEK, II years old, is under
arrest at La Crosse, charged with
burglary.
Mr.. AND Mrs. JOSEPH BYRNE, alias
Howard, who several weeks ago
swinded anumber OF Milwaukee ladies
by selling them dress patterns which
they afterwards took to make Mp and
never returned, have been locked up
in Chicago.
A PECULIAR hog disease is prevalent
in Iowa County. 1t first causes a
lamaness in the front feet, the whole
body becomes partially paraly zed,
the entire system gives out, the legs
refuse to support the body, and finally
death ensues. The disease first de-
veloped in the herd OF Alexander Nc
Cutchin, of Arena, who lost many val
liable animals.
merchant, charged with forgery, en-
tered special plea of insanity. A
Jury found that he was sane at the
time the offeDse is alleged to have
been committed.
THE Wisconsin Central Company's
dock business at Ashland, this sea-
son, has been four times greater than
IN any previous yesr.
The Green Bay Railway Company
is putting side track at Grand Cross
ing, near La Crosse, 1000 feet long.
The Y. Nj. c.. A. Of Madison holds
open-air meetings that are ergeiy at
tended aud inatrumen.al In adding
many members to the ass oclation.
H. II. BEAssER has returned to Ash
land from the Vermillion range, where
he went to get information in regard
to the loss OF Geo. Bell, farmer upon
the Indian reservation. BEL took
canoe to cross the Verm,liion River
10 his home, distance OF two miles
ahout II O'Clock at night. 1t was g.,